Pacific Island Countries face fragile digital transformation push: Carnegie report
Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are accelerating efforts to digitize government services and digital tools as engines of economic growth, resilience…
Australia
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Snap selects ConnectID, k-ID for Australian age verification
In Australia, Snapchat users can now prove their age using ID document validation or biometrics from k-ID, or with ConnectID,…
Australian MP wants to follow Denmark in legislating right to own one’s likeness
The latest groundswell of legislative activity aimed at the tech sector concerns the question of who has the right to…
Australia latest nation to face insults, threats from US over online safety laws
America has summoned Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, to answer for her alleged offenses against free speech. In a…
Tasmania begins exploring business case for mobile driver’s license
The Australian State of Tasmania’s interim budget earmarks funding to develop a business case for implementing a digital drivers license…
Email age inference an option for Australians confused about social media law
Australia’s legislation prohibiting kids under 16 from having social media accounts takes effect on December 10. On that day, 2.8…
Australian eSafety Commissioner announces platforms covered by social media law
Comments made this week at a press conference held by Australia’s Minister for Communications and eSafety Commissioner aim to bring…
NSW Police face questions on use of facial recognition algorithm from 2011
Australia’s New South Wales Police used a legacy facial recognition algorithm for over a decade and declined repeated offers of…
Australian eSafety Commissioner battling suits from Big Tech ahead of Dec 10
If the wave of age assurance legislation across the globe had a headlining showdown, it would probably be in Australia,…
Big platforms pout over Australia’s social media law but pledge to comply
Any parent understands that, in some cases, no matter how hard a child protests the rules, they’ll probably give in…
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